Rice

Wash and soak rice in cold water about 2 hours; then put it in boiling water and let boil about 15 minutes. Put in collender, pouring cold water over it. Put over a kettle of boiling water, cover well and steam about 1 hour, stirring several times. Every grain will be separated.

Herb Gumbo

3 lbs. veal.

1 bunch spinach.

8 green cabbage leaves.

1 bunch turnip tops.

1 sprig marjoram.

1 head lettuce.

10 beet leaves.

1 spring thyme.

1 sprig green celery tops, 3 green onions.

2 pods pepper.

3 bay leaves.

1 pod garlic.

2 slices ham.

1/2 tablespoon salt. 1 tablespoon butter.

Wash leaves and use only the tender parts. Fry veal and ham, add leaves and seasoning and boil about 4 hours, then strain and chop leaves very fine, return to the broth that they were boiled in; add butter. Serve with boiled rice.

Gumbo. Okra Gumbo

1 1/2 gals, water.

6 doz. pods, or 1 can okra.

1 onion.

2 cups, or 8 fresh tomatoes. 1 slice ham. 1 tablespoon lard. 6 crabs or 1 pt. peeled shrimp.

1 lb. veal bone, or 1 chicken. 1 pod garlic.

1 pod pepper.

2 bay leaves. 2 teaspoons salt. 1 sprig thyme.

Boil veal bone or chicken in water; reduce it to 1/2. Scald crabs and shrimp. Fry in lard, onion, crabs, ham and shrimp and sliced okra, then add tomatoes and liquor that chicken or veal bone was boiled in. Boil about 2 hours and serve with rice.

In making this gumbo, either crabs or shrimp can be used, or both.

Rice

Wash and soak rice in cold water about 2 hours; then put it in boiling water and let boil about 15 minutes. Put in collender, pouring cold water over it. Put over a kettle of boiling water, cover well, and steam about 1 hour, stirring several times. Every grain will be separated.

Julienne Soup

4 lbs. round beef.

1/2 tablespoon burnt sugar.

8 carrots, sliced.

1 cup green peas.

1 onion.

1 turnip. 4 sprigs parsley. 1 tablespoon salt. 1 pod pepper. 1 gal. water.

Boil beef with salt, pepper, turnips and onion, add burnt sugar.

When it comes to a boil add 1 cup cold water, then skim. After boiling 4 hours strain, put in carrots that have been cut in very narrow strips and fried in butter, then add peas.

Mock Turtle Soup

1 call head.

1 gal. water.

1 carrot.

1 turnip.

8 cloves.

1/2 teaspoon minced onion.

1 tablespoon salt.

1 teaspoon minced parsley.

1 pod pepper.

2 tablespoons butter.

2 tablespoons browned flour. 1 wine glass of sherry. 4 hard boiled eggs. 1/2 lemon, sliced.

Wash calf head in vinegar and water, cut in pieces, fry with carrot and turnip sliced fine in hot butter. Add cloves, onion, parsley and flour, then water. Boil about 4 hours. Strain soup, add wine, eggs, sliced lemon and 1 cup of meat from calf head cut in small pieces.